Base Salary Structure
The foundation of ECU Health’s investment in you is your base pay. It reflects your role, responsibilities and skills. It’s one of the many ways we recognize the value you bring to our health care system.
Our base pay structure:
- Salary ranges, also referred to as grades, state a minimum, midpoint and maximum rate to be paid for a position. They serve a variety of purposes:
- Approximate a market price for similar positions
- Help establish and maintain internal job-pricing hierarchy
- Provide tools for market comparison
- Provide minimum and maximum salary guidelines for positions
- Provide parameters on which pay program and merit increase changes may be determined
- A group of salary ranges is called a pay structure.
- Different pay structures may be used to group certain types of jobs. ECU Health currently uses four separate structures that are identified by letters.
- V: The majority of roles across the system are a “V” grade.
- RN: Roles that are identified as bedside nursing.
- E: Executive roles.
- NPI: Used for a role paid at a flat, contract rate.
- ECU Health salary ranges have various spreads, or distance from the minimum of the salary range to the maximum. All V grades have range spreads of 65%. RN grades are customized and have spreads ranging from 31% to 50%. E grades are also customized.
